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Dam Drought  The Deschutes Basin Habitat Conservation Plan was approved in December with the goal of increasing instream flows in the river. Then another drought year happened. Last summer the Wickiup Reservoir dried to just 1% of its capacity, the lowest it has been since it was built in 1949. In an average year the reservoir, which stores Deschutes River water, would be at about 25% of its capacity at the end of irrigation season, with just over 63,000 acre-feet. Last year's shortage illustrated a decade of drought and generous allocations of water rights. This shortage continue...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — Cate Havstad-Casad, co-owner of Havstad-Casad Family Farms in...

C.O. Irrigation District removes SE Bend homeless encampment 'It’s a total wreck over on that corner' BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Crews with the Central Oregon Irrigation District removed and cleaned up the site of a homeless encampment along a canal in southeast Bend Wednesday morning. Shon Rae, deputy managing director of COID says crew members began removing piles of trash from the encampment early in the day. “They’re out there cleaning up trash, hauling it off to the dump, and then the items that don’t appear to be trash are being held for 30 days at our property off of Brookswood (Bou...